- BC) give
ranges from a
minimum of two
shekels per
month for
unskilled labour, to as high as
seven to ten
shekels per
month in some records. A subsistence...
-
early Biblical reference is
Abraham being reported to pay "four
hundred shekels of silver" to
Ephron the
Hittite for the Cave of the
Patriarchs in Hebron...
- They
could have been
tetradrachms of Tyre,
usually referred to as
Tyrian shekels (14
grams of 94% silver), or
staters from
Antioch (15
grams of 75% silver)...
- Syracuse. This Siculo-Punic
coinage probably preceded Phoenicia's own
Tyrian shekels,
which developed c. 400 BC. The
first Carthaginian coinage seems to have...
-
Tyrian shekels, tetradrachms, or
tetradrachmas were
coins of Tyre. They also bore the Gr****
inscription ΤΥΡΟΥ ΙΕΡΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΣΥΛΟΥ (Týrou hierâs kai asýlou...
- the man of one mina. One mina (1⁄60 of a talent) was made
equal to 60
shekels (1
shekel = 8.3 grams, or 0.3 oz).
Among the
surviving laws are these:...
- and
shekels had not yet been introduced. By the time of Ur-Nammu (shortly
before 2000 BCE), the mina had a
value of 1⁄60
talent as well as 60
shekels. The...
-
Jewish history. The
newly minted silver coins included shekels, half-
shekels, and quarter-
shekels, each
being labelled with the year of
minting and their...
-
Kibbutz as the 6th
richest in
Israel with an
estimated value of 250
million Shekels. The
kibbutz was
founded in 1931 on land
bought by
Yehoshua Hankin from...
- corruption, and was
ultimately convicted of
stealing close to 2
million shekels from the
National Workers Labor Federation while he was its chairman. Hirschson...
